Faraiwe
Tea time.@faraiwe Any accounts in particular?
I'd like to build up a bit of a profile of them, what they are putting out there, and how they are using the site.
@KraftTea ugh, I blocked, and now can't find the couple of others, likely under same trea.
@faraiwe Okie. If you see more, give me the head's up.
The difficult bit about these things is that it's like trying to excise an iceberg, when you can only see and grasp at a tiny bit of it.
If I can point admins towards something with a definable pattern of use, we might be able to do a lot better than just block them. We might be able to give the admins the kind of info they need to filter the great majority of them out.
@KraftTea yup.
Although it didn't seem similar to the previous bot accounts of pre-xitter, nor the early 2017 or the flood of 2022, here. There was no opening with canned material, or overly repeated stiff, usual odd references to one-man-audience ... seemed more along the line of legit idiots, or russophile individuals, at worst.
@faraiwe Ok. Still worth looking at though. Sometimes, you can identify patterns as to when they made posts that suggest sharing talking points or posting from a certain location.
DragonRider@KraftTea found one of the blocked accounts, voiddumu at mastodon social , fairly new, few posts, eager to jump in and push narrative convenient to vlad.
Toni Aittoniemi@faraiwe Did they ever leave? Constant stream of new accounts every day.
@gimulnautti Good question?
Back in 2022, there were droves signing up, to bigger instances without mod approval.
Post early to mid 2023, I have not seen many, if ANY actually, vatnik bot accounts roaming in the wild.
I understand there is a surge of vlad-desperation-driven bot accounts being sown and they've remembered the fediverse exists, I guess. Sigh.
@faraiwe I’m suspecting there might even be a new source that’s from USA. Republicans taking notes and starting their own.
@gimulnautti dunno, these look more along lines of sowing division, with hints of vlad-friendly, not the outright both-sides and/or "as a democrat, maybe republicans are right" types of shit domestic dezinfo.